Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Age |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | ≥ 65 (n= 408) | 65-79 (n = 361) | ≥ 80 (n = 47) |
| Demographics | |||
| Age (years ± SEM) | 72.82 ± 0.26 | 71.59 ± 0.07 | 82.26 ± 0.40 |
| Race - white (N, %) | 384 (94) | 340 (94) | 44 (94) |
| Married (N, %) | 287 (70) | 261 (72) | 26 (55) |
| Gender (N, %) | |||
| Female | 199 (49) | 181 (50) | 18 (38) |
| Male | 209 (51) | 180 (50) | 29 (62) |
| > High school education | 183 (45) | 162 (45) | 21 (45) |
| Clinical Characteristics | |||
| Karnofsky performance status ≥ 90 (N, %) | 317 (78) | 280 (78) | 37 (79) |
| Treatment type (N, %) | |||
| Surgery | 247 (60) | 223 (62) | 24 (51) |
| Chemotherapy | 144 (35) | 129 (36) | 15 (32) |
| Radiation therapy | 195 (48) | 172 (48) | 23 (49) |
| Chemotherapy and radiation therapy | 69 (17) | 60 (17) | 9 (19) |
| Cancer Diagnosis (N, %) | |||
| Breast | 122 (30) | 114 (32) | 8 (17) |
| Genitourinary | 123 (30) | 109 (30) | 14 (30) |
| Lung | 77 (19) | 65 (18) | 12 (26) |
| Gastrointestinal | 36 (9) | 34 (9) | 2 (4) |
| Hematologic | 25 (6) | 19 (5) | 6 (13) |
| Gynecologic | 17 (4) | 14 (4) | 3 (6) |
| Head/neck | 8 (2) | 6 (2) | 2 (4) |